- Temporary Detention Centers -

1. Were Japanese Americans given adequate care and accommodations as they were rounded up? Were they given assurances and clear information on what the future held for them?

 Many of the camps were located in the desert, and faced unbearable temperatures. Also, meals in the camps contained meager portions. All the while these people never knew when they would be permitted to return home.

- Permanent WRA Camps -

2. Discuss the claim by the U.S. Government that the camps were for the protection of Japanese Americans. Were the barbed wire fences and guard towers meant to keep vigilantes out or Japanese American inmates in?

Although the government made it seem like that was the case ,the truth is that the government wanted to keep the Japanese inside. They thought with them trapped inside of the bob wire fences they would all be safe.

- Camp Life -

3. Were the camps “resettlement communities,” or prisons? What’s the difference between the two?

 These were resettlement camps. The difference between the two is that a prison is a place of confinement for lawbreakers, people who have committed crimes. A resettlement community is moving people to a different place to live because they are no longer allowed to live in the area where they used to live.

4. Did the War Relocation Authority take measures to protect family life and privacy?

The WRA provided recreational activities knowing that conflict would erupt.

- Questions of Loyalty -

5. How did Japanese Americans respond after being incarcerated without due process of law, to questions asking them whether or not they were unquestioningly loyal to this country?

Some Japanese Americans questioned why they should be expected to prove their innocence, or their loyalty, unlike other Americans. They wanted to know why they did not receive equal treatment as other citizens.

- Tule Lake Segregation -

6. Were those who answered “no” to the loyalty questions clearly “disloyal” or were they voicing discontent with their treatment?

They were voicing discontent with their treatment.

- Draft Resisters -

7. Why did these young men resist being drafted into the military? Write or improvise a conversation between two brothers in an internment camp who make two different opposing decisions on the draft: one enlists, the other resists. What are their points of agreement, if any? How do they differ? Is one brother more patriotic than the other ?

 One brother wants to go, only really so that he may get to ave freedom and be let to fight for the country and, he’s tired of having to be trapped inside of the camp.The other brother wants to jut go back home,and he really just wants peace.

- Military Service -

8. What did it take to fight for a country that kept your family interned behind barbed wire?

It really takes a lot to do this, to be able to willingly fight for a country who has trapped you behind barb-wired fences.They only made, you go for punishment if you wanted to go to this place they might even get so mad, and not let you go.

Japanese Internment Camps WWII

1. How do we prevent the injustice of internment from happening again? Perhaps it
starts with learning about this historic mistake, as well as working to
eliminate the causes for continuing racial prejudice today. 

This was obviously a big mistake in United States history and there is nothing wrong with making mistakes, the only thing that would make it wrong is not having the effort to make it right. To keep this tragic event from happening again we have to at least try to shape our society as a good one by eliminating racist, sexist, and any other prejudice vibes that were in the past. 

2. What do you think? What is your responsibility? What can you do as one individual? Your  voice and actions can be an important part not only of preventing the gross  injustice of internment from happening again, but also preventing the other  negative effects of racial hatred and prejudice.

I think that forcing Japanese into internment camps was not only wrong and unfair, but it was also injustice and we did not "establish justice" as it says in the constitution during that time. I think that my responsibility is to be myself and not put anyone down because of their race. People learn from what they see and if I am loving of every race and gender then people will hopefully realize that hatred shouldn't be promoted. There is no way that you can change anyone's opinions and beliefs but you can influence their beliefs.  











Military police standing guard... why are they guarding....these are ordinary people !

Images of Manazar 

Photos from the National Archives Registry

Children doing homework on a bench while other children
back at home are doing work at their personal desks

Third Grade Arithmetic

Photo by Dorothea Lange

The very first Manazar grave, not the very last though...

Mound of dirt with stones around

Photo by Dorothea Lange



A Old Japanese man reading the paper in front of  an office

Manzanar Relocation Center, California 

Photo by Ansel Adams






                                                        

Long row of military style barracks, places that they 
are forced to live at 

Long row of military style barracks


  Photo by Dorothea Lange

An instructor, standing in front of class of women students teaching dressmaking,
 one woman in front with dressmaker's dummy 
Manzanar Relocation Center, California
 Photo by Ansel Adams